The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-26
Montpelier and Vicinity.

Mrs. w. A. Jones.
Hon. CHARLES DEWEY left on Monday
for Rutland and Boston, intending to be alb
sent until Saturday.
REV. j. A. SHERBuRN will preach at the
Baptist church next Sunday in exchange
with Rev. e. d. Mason.
WILLIAM E. BEST arrived home from
Mandan, Dakota last evening, having been
away from Montpelier about two years
REV. Mr.: WRIGHT is to preach in the
Morse school-house, East Montpelier, next
Sunday at fifteen minutes past two P. NJ.
Mr.. EDWARD B. PERRY, Boston's blind
pianist, is to give concert at the Seminary
chapel on Monday evening, February 7th.
WHILE Francis Labouchere was moving
oil barrels yesterday one of them fell upon
one of his little fingers and severed it at the
first joint.
A NEW telephone station, in connection
with the Montpelier exchange, was located
at the residence of l.. o. Barker at West
Berlin yesterday.
REV. HOWARD f. HILL was summoned to
Concord, N. H., on the midnight train Tues
day night on account of the probably fatal
illness of his mother.
WILLIAM MILLER had one finger badly
jammed by the road-machine while assisting
in the work of preparing East State street
for coasting yesterday.
THE Woman's Auxiliary of Christ church
will meet, with the Montpelier branch Of
tha Not al
on Thursday afternoon, with Mrs. S. l..
Howe.
MELISSA, wife of Erastus Cram, died at
her home on Seminary Hill on Saturday,
aged siXty-three years. Funeral services
were held on Tuesday, Rev. 7. p Frost Of
ficiating.
Miss ALICE DREW came home last evening
from New York city were she has been WIS.,
iting for the past four months. She was
accompanied by her sister, Mrs. G. w.
Learned
f. w. MORSE has purchased of George w.
Scott the two-story dwelling house recently
erected by the latter on Loomis street and
the adjoining vacant lot located at the cor
ner of Loomis and School streets.
JOSEPH G.. Brown, to whose care Mr.. A.
c. Brown entrusts large portion of the
business of his extensive fire insurance
agency, has recently taken the agency for
this vicinity of the New York Life Insurance
Company.
AT the residence of j, o. Livingston on
Thursday evening there is to be sociable,
the proceeds of which will 60 towards the
purchase of an organ for use in the church
at Wrightsville. The invitation to be pres
ent is cordial and very general.
THERE will he a meeting of the People S
Coasting Club at Armory Rink next Friday
evening at half-past seven o'clock to COM
plete organization, receive the report of the
committee on bylaws and transact other
business. A large attendance is desired.
A UNION temperance concert will be held
at Trinity church next Sunday evening
The choirs of Bethany church and the
Church of the Messiah and chorus OF
children from Bethany church are expected
| to assist in the musical portion of the eX-
ercises.
A socIABLE will be given at the Unitarian
vestry on Thursday of this week, at which
an oyster supper will take the place of the
usual tea. The entertainment after supper
will consist of negro and other songs with
| guitar and banjo accompaniments. Host
ess-Mrs. A. c. Brown.
BY recent order of the post office de-
partment postal notes are issued payable al
any money-order office in the United States
instead of at some particular Office des
ignated on the face of the note, as has been
the practice since this system for the trans
mission of money through the mails first
came into use.
THE toboggan slide was fairly crowded on
Saturday afternoon of last week and both
chutes were in active operation until dusk
Rain interfered with the sport somewhat
during the evening but the track will be in
better condition than before as result
and the managers have reason to expect 6
| large patronage during the next month.
A SIGNAL station has been established by
the United States signal service in connec
ton with Norwich University and Ser
geant Henry j. Cox, of the signal service
and formerly at the Boston office, has beer
detailed to take charge of it. The observa
tory will be open March l. An officer o.
the United States army is to be detailed as
|
IT is very probable that our people vii
be favored with an entertainment by the
Owl Glee Club Minstrels of st. Adams in
the near future. 1t is certainly to be hoped
that they WILL for the Owl Glee Club is on,
of the best male organizations of the kind
in New England and its minstrel entertain
ments are real treat-and rare one too
for people outside of st Albans.
In carload of Western horses, recently
shipped from their native state to Barre
VT, parties, were two fine animals fo
" Bert" son of A. o. Cummins of this place
At a station on the way the horses were
taken from the car for rest and exercise ant
four ont of the whole number escaped ant
could not be recaptured. Both of " Berts
horses were of the missing number.
THE tifty-third annual catalogue of Nor
wich University, just issued, shows the in
stitution to be in a thriving condition. TIL,
attendance and interest in the college are in
creasing and the prospects for the future arr
highly encouraging. The roster of alumni